Missing Pet Voicemailing Services

One of the greatest thing to hit missing pet searches was automated voicemailing!  Find Toto service was probably the first one and most certainly is the best known.  But there are competitors in Lost My Doggie and in Pet Amber Alert

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To make it work, you do need to have a good reason to believe that the dog is in a certain residential area and will be seen by people receiving the voicemail message at their home landline phone. That can be the biggest problem. The services don't deliver (voicemail messages) to businesses or to cell phones.

With a growing population of people that either don't have landlines or, like me, never check the voicemail on their landline phones but every few weeks, these voicemailing services may not always work so well. But today, when they work, they work GREAT! Possibly, because cell phones can be texted to, some day a lost pet texting service idea will work. I have found one, LostPetText.com, but I don't know anyone that has ever used it and I don't think the site does a good selling job.

Also to my knowledge (and I'd love to be wrong about this), the messages are in English, so that can be another drawback if the messages are delivered to a large number of homes with no English-speaking residents.

I've found another service that looks interesting, but I know of no one that has ever used it -- Called Everyone.  It is a service that allows you to record the message, and provide the phone number list of who to be called. If the lost dog's people have a good source of a lot of numbers -- maybe including cell phone nu;mbers? -- then this might be a good method for getting the word out to whoever might be seeing the dog. Or it can be used to request help in the search!